28-year-old Navneel Sen, has expressed his appreciation for his love for 27-year-old Filomena Diyasa in Labasa after performing the traditional ilakovi iTaukei ceremony to formally ask Diyasa’s hand in marriage in Naikelikoso, Macuata.<\/p>\n
Sen swam across a flooded river for the ceremony in the village during the recent floods in Vanua Levu.<\/p>\n
Diyasa says she sees Sen as a loyal, caring and well-mannered man.<\/p>\n
She says she was surprised that he approached her in the formal iTaukei way, adding that she had never imagined the moment would unfold in that manner.<\/p>\n
The two first met in 2019 during her first year at university.<\/p>\n
Speaking to fijivillage News from Vanua Levu, Sen says that performing the ilakovi for the first time gave him a deeper appreciation of iTaukei culture and the values behind the traditional practice.<\/p>\n
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Sen adds that the experience was meaningful and transformative, and allowed him to show respect while learning the proper iTaukei protocol.<\/p>\n
Sen says it is important to approach every practice with respect, understanding and the right intention.<\/p>\n
Diyasa says young people today should understand that times have changed and that Fiji is home to people with different beliefs, cultures and life experiences.<\/p>\n
She also commented on their photo circulating on facebook, saying some online users made racial remarks.<\/p>\n
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Diyasa says she is grateful to her parents and family for supporting her and welcoming Sen into the family.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"28-year-old Navneel Sen, has expressed his appreciation for his love for 27-year-old Filomena Diyasa in Labasa after performing…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":312796,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[49,48,361,139468,75,139467],"class_list":["post-312795","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-celebrities","tag-diyasa-says-amid-online-racial-remarks","tag-entertainment","tag-we-are-all-one-in-gods-eyes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312795","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=312795"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312795\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/312796"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=312795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=312795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=312795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}